Children Quotes by Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Inspiration is the richest nation I know, the most powerful on earth. Sexual energy Freud calls it; the capital of desire I call it;…

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as…

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

... of the two kinds of order, the conscious and the unconscious order, only one is real. It's the order in the deep hidden places.

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another step.

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

What can be heavier than wealth than freedom?

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself.…

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter.

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner